A dinosaur relative of the American Alligator has been discovered in North America. Approximately the size of a bus, these creatures lived about 75-85 million years ago.
Even though most people use the words alligators and crocodiles interchangeably, they are actually different biological families within the biological order Crocodilia.
The ancient gators had massive jaws that allowed it to chomp down on dinosaurs.
What if one of these ancient creatures were to evolve into existence again? A solid B-horror story.
Evolving twice isn’t unheard of: white-throated rails evolved to be flightless on a remote island in the Indian Ocean twice, ~36k years apart.
This is quite different because the bird evolved a trait instead of a spontaneously generating a new species, but the mechanism in a story world could be the same.
What if cattle continuously fall off a cliff into a massive Florida lake for years on end? Then, the alligators grow larger and larger… until the dinosaur is back! The story would then go into familiar storylines: fight for survival, random love interests, unique motivations for staying alive.
Ultimately, the dinosaur will end up dead. But, making this a series, in a surprise twist scene at the very end, there’s an egg!
